Being responsible for some of the most transcendent music ever created, it only feels right that we should kick off our list with a particularly dense collage from Scottish wizards Boards of Canada. You'll find this on the 2009 Warp 20 (Unheard) compilation. There might be some purists out there who'll argue that if it ain't guitars, it ain't shoegaze. But just listen to this kaleidoscopic swirl of lush drones and tell me that it doesn't owe a debt to Kevin Shields' sacred sonic palette. One of my favourite things about shoegaze is its power to evoke such vivid images in your mind; and for me, Seven Forty Seven conjures a disorientating woodland clearing in which the colours of the forest have started to bleed into one another. Further Listening Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) (Trans Canada Highway EP, 2006)